Stove.



UNITED STAT ES racented October e, 1908.

i ATENT OFFICE.

MARCH-BROWBACK STOVE COMPANY, OF POTTSTOWN,

VANIA.

i s-TofvE.

PENNSYL- SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters 'Patent No. 740,674, 'dated October 6, 1903. i

Application filed April 10,'1903. Serial No. 1 52,029. (No model.)

stove, which'will be a most eflectu'al heater and perfectly distribute the heat and provide improved nested covers for an opening in' the top of the stove, permitting its use as a cookstove when desired.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts,

as will bemore fully hereinafter descri bed,'

and pointed out in the claims.

p In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal seetion. Fig. 3 is a plan view, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged view, illustrating in detail the nested covers.

1 represents the oval body or fire-box, having an outer inclosing casing 2 spaced therefrom 'and forming an air-heating space or chamber all around the body. The stove-topd plate 3 and bottom plate 3a encompass both the body 1 andonter casing 2 and have'per;

forations 4 around their edge communicating with the air-heating chamber to provide airinlets in the bottorn and air-outlets in the top. A suitable fuel, draft, and ash door 5 is provided in one end of the stove, andl the smoke-pipe is connected with an Outlet-collar 5a in the opposite end of the-stovenear its top.

On top of the stove a hood or shell 6 is removably secured and incloses about one-half of the perforations 4 in top l and has openings in its front for the reception of heated 'air' from the store-top. The hood is of a general semicircolar or horseshoe shape and has an open collar 7 in its top for the reception of a pipe or fine to convey the heated air collected by the hood to an upper room or elsewhere, as preferred. This hood or shell can of course be removed when it is desired to heat but one room with the stove.

Top 3 has a flanged circular opening 8, which is closed by my improved nested covers, as will nowbe explained.

9 represents a circular plate having a lug 10v at one side for the reception of a bolt 11 to hinge the plate to the stove-top. The plate 9 also has a lug 12 atits opposite side, perforated for the attachment of a handle to facilitate its operation and is made with a cir-l cular fiange 13 on its lower face to enter the opening 8 and hold the plate in proper' position. This plate 9 has a flanged opening for the reception vof a lid 14, and the latter has a fianged opening for the reception of a smaller lidl, both of said lids having recesses 16'to receive a lid-lifter for permitting their re- .movaL An ornamental cover 17, which is preferably of the conical Shape shown, having a suitable handle at its apex, is made with a perforatedlug 18 at one side to receive the bolt 11 and swing thereon. At the opposite side of cover 17 a notch 19 is formed therein to receive a cleat 2G on plate 9, or rather on the handle-lug 12, so that the cover 17 will be locked to plate 9, land when the latter is opened the cover will also be Inoved to an open position. This is desirable in feeding .large logs through opening 8, too large to enter door 5.

Then my improvements are in use asa heater alone, plate 9, with the cover 17 there-v on, can be swung aside for the reception of Wood or other fuel, and when in use as a cocker cover 17 is moved to one side, exposing lids 14 and 15.

The shell or hood 6 is so shaped'as to lie w parallel with the covers and serves to limit the movement thereof in one direction; but, as before stated, this shell or hood may be dispensed with, and the nested covers can then be moved in either direction.

A great many slight changes and alterations might be made in'the general form and arrangement of part-s described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not confine myself to the preoise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invenmon.

Having fully described my invention, what I olaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a stove, the combination with a body,

and an inolosing oasing forming an air-chambei; around the same, of a hood or shell on top of the stove to confine a portion of the heat therefrom, a platepivoted to the top and closing an opening therein, and nested covers on said plate.

2. In a stove, the combination with a body, an inelosing oasing forming van air-Chamber around the same, and top and bottom plates having perforatons forming inlets and outzo- I THOMAS J. MARCI-I. Witnesses:

WM. K. KULP, O. F. DUNLAP. 

